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Re: EXTRA_DIST and CVS directories
>>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <oliva@lsd.ic.unicamp.br> writes:
> On Dec 18, 2000, Ganesan Rajagopal <rganesan@myrealbox.com> wrote:
>> Okay, I understand. How about just excluding *only* the CVS
>> directories?
> And how about SCCS, RCS and soon SVN directories too? And how about
> excluding files listed in .cvsignore too? Or excluding *.o?
A valid point. Let's just deprecate the use then.
> I seem to recall there's a dist hook that you might use to remove any
> such files yourself, so I agree with Tom: I'd rather not have any
> special cases at all in automake.
I am using dist-hook currently to pull in the files, I didn't think of the
option of removing them in dist-hook. That seems a log simpler, thanks for
the idea :-).
Ganesan
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